Question

A baseball pitcher has pitched `98 2/3` innings. What is the number of innings written as a decimal?

Answer 1

The number of innings written as a decimal is `98.(6)`.

Explanation:

If you have a whole number, then that is the number that will go in front of the decimal, which is `98`. Then we have the fraction `2/3`.

In order to convert this to a decimal, we just need to do `2` divided by `3`, which gives us the answer of `0.66666...`

An easy way to write this is just `0.(6)` or `0.bar(6)` and a way to say it is zero point six repeated. So now that we have `98` as our number in front of the decimal and `0.(6)` behind it, we just put them together.

`98 + "0.(6)" = "98.(6)"`

`98 + 0.bar(6) = 98.bar(6)`